Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. I. MEANING, TRUTH, AND UNDERSTANDING
5. 1. Truth-Conditions, Bivalence, and Verificationism 1
6. 2. Meaning, Communication, and Knowledge 29
7. 3. Quotation and Saying That 51
8. 4. In Defence of Modesty 87
9. 5. Another Plea for Modesty 108
10. 6. Physicalism and Primitive Denotation: Field on Tarski 132
11. II. REFERENCE, THOUGHT, AND WORLD
12. 7. Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists 157
13. 8. On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name 171
14. 9. Truth-Value Gaps 199
15. 10. De Re Senses 214
16. 11. Singular Thought and the Extent of Inner Space 228
17. 12. Intentionality De Re 260
18. 13. Putnam on Mind and Meaning 275
19. III REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM
20. 14. On “The Reality of the Past” 295
21. 15. Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding 314
22. 16. Mathematical Platonism and Dummettian Anti-Realism 344
23. IV ISSUES IN EPISTEMOLOGY
24. 17. Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge 369
25. 18. Knowledge and the Internal 395
26. 19. Knowledge by Hearsay 414
27. Bibliography 445
28. Credits 455
29. Index 459